Tales Quotes - Page 8

• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Gold, Fairy Tale

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

  Ron Lamothe

  Book, Unique, Cameras

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• The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Emotional, Hot, Tone

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• Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

  Ken Hom

  Sweet, Laughter, Struggle

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

  January Jones

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'

  Eartha Kitt

  Animated Series, Fans, Another Chance

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Gaps

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• As one tale ends, so another begins.

  Jackie Chan

  Ends

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• The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

  Danny DeVito

  Father, Son, Wife

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle....Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you're hearing the tale.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  People, Giving, Suffering

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• Trust the tale, not the teller.

  David Knopfler

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• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  Abigail Spencer

  Father, Reading, Vanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stories, Next, Generations

  "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.

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• A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Ends, Universe

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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